When London’s Corinthian Bennett visits Ottawa during March Break, he’ll get schooled on Parliament Hill by someone relatively new to the place himself.

London North Centre Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos, elected as part of Justin Trudeau’s 2015 majority government, reached out to Corinthian’s family when he saw the boy’s story in the pages of The Free Press last week.

He offered to show the nine-year-old the House of Commons, the Senate and the Parliamentary Library.

Corinthia is a political junkie who one day hopes to become prime minister. He’s even mapped out a life plan based on becoming a lawyer, a civil servant, an MP, a cabinet minister and then Canada’s leader, in that order.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Fragiskatos, who is in London this week doing constituency work until Parliament is recalled at the end of the month. “This doesn’t happen all the time.”

Corinthian’s story put a smile on his face, Fragiskatos said. The rookie MP believes Corinthian’s penchant for all things political is one small sign that our democracy is healthy and the education system is doing a good job.

“I think this idea of youth apathy is a myth,” said Fragistakos.

“It’s wonderful to see. It makes you smile. It’s reassuring,” added the MP.

Corinthian, who attended Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s town-hall meeting at Alumni Hall with his family, became fixated on politics after reading a book that lists all of Canada’s prime ministers in historical order.

So did Fragiskatos also become interested in politics at a young age?

“You must be kidding. I was more interested in finding ways to get to the hockey rink” and dreaming of playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, he said. But he thinks even if many children do not share Corinthian’s enthusiasm, the boy’s interest in politics should be celebrated.

Fragiskatos has even set up a youth council of 16 to 24-year-olds in his riding to stay in touch with the leaders of tomorrow.

“We as a society need to continue to engage our young people,” he said, noting that Trudeau kept the youth ministry portfolio for himself when he formed his cabinet after the 2005 federal election.